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• Lawmakers call on DOJ to reopen investigation into Google Wi-Fi spying

  By Grant Gross | 24 May, 2012 23:37

  Two U.S. lawmakers have called on the U.S. Department of Justice to reopen its investigation into Google's snooping on Wi-Fi networks in 2010 after recent questions about the company's level of cooperation with federal inquiries.

• Lawmakers call on DOJ to reopen investigation into Google Wi-Fi spying

  By Grant Gross | 24 May, 2012 20:53

  Two U.S. lawmakers have called on the U.S. Department of Justice to reopen its investigation into Google's snooping on Wi-Fi networks in 2010 after recent questions about the company's level of cooperation with federal inquiries.

• Researchers propose TLS extension to detect rogue SSL certificates

  By Lucian Constantin | 24 May, 2012 20:35

  A pair of security researchers have proposed an extension to the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol that would allow browsers to detect and block fraudulently-issued SSL certificates.

• European privacy regulators want more detail on Google's policy changes

  By Peter Sayer | 24 May, 2012 17:42

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• Study: Patriot Act gives US government no special acess to cloud data

  By Grant Gross | 23 May, 2012 16:02

  An often-repeated concern that the U.S. Patriot Act gives the U.S. government unequaled access to personal data stored on cloud services is incorrect, with several other nations enjoying similar access to cloud data, according to a study released Wednesday.

• Microsoft takes Bing Streetside offline in Germany after privacy complaints

  By Loek Essers | 23 May, 2012 10:31

  Microsoft has taken its Google Street View-like service Bing Streetside offline in Germany after German citizens expressed their worries about how Microsoft handles requests for blurring of images, the company said on Tuesday.

• FTC appoints privacy advocate as adviser

  By Grant Gross | 22 May, 2012 05:44

  The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has hired Paul Ohm, a privacy advocate and critic of current online privacy practices, as a senior privacy adviser for consumer protection and competition issues affecting the Internet and mobile services.

• Facebook proposes more changes to privacy policy

  By Cameron Scott | 12 May, 2012 11:12

  Facebook said on Friday that it intends to make further changes to its privacy policy in order to respond to an audit by the Irish government, but privacy advocates saw the move as an inadequate attempt to quell privacy concerns prior to Facebook's planned initial public offering.

• California moves to stop employers demanding Facebook passwords

  By Cameron Scott | 11 May, 2012 10:41

  The California assembly passed a bill on Thursday that prevents employers from demanding job applicants' passwords for accounts on Facebook or other social networking sites.

• Twitter resists subpoena to release user's data without warrant

  By Jeremy Kirk | 09 May, 2012 13:04

  Twitter is contesting a court order requiring it to turn over private data on a user charged with disorderly conduct during the Occupy Wall Street protests in New York last year.

• Myspace settles FTC privacy complaint

  By Grant Gross | 09 May, 2012 02:19

  Social networking site Myspace has agreed to settle charges from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission that it misrepresented its protection of users' personal information, the FTC announced Tuesday.

• Don't flush privacy in the name of security

  By John Dix | 07 May, 2012 20:33

  On the face of it, the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) that the U.S. House of Representatives just passed seems to address the long-held notion that encouraging private and public sector concerns to share security information will improve our general security.

• Fewer than half of Facebook and Google users understood the sites' privacy policies

  By Cameron Scott | 05 May, 2012 07:54

  Most users of Facebook and Google had fundamental gaps in understanding, even after reading privacy policies, about how the websites handled their information and how other Web users could discover it, according to a study released by the digital branding firm Siegel+Gale [cq].

• Facebook users unaware of privacy risks

  By AAP | 04 May, 2012 08:55

  Many users of Facebook are unaware of the privacy risks from the massive social network site or fail to take adequate precautions, Consumer Reports says.

• Mobile experts disagree on who should protect privacy

  By Grant Gross | 04 May, 2012 03:46

  Users of mobile apps need more information about the ways those apps use their personal information, a group of experts agreed Thursday, but they didn't agree on who is most responsible for protecting user privacy.